A event held at Watershed on Saturday 20th April. The event starts at 18:00.
Date: Saturday 20th April
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Tickets: Free
Live Streamed ✔
This year's Lyra Annual Festival Public Talk.
Join Chris Redmond and Liv Torc, as they share, in words, poetry and film, the phenomenal story of Hot Poets, as well as short guest readings from local legends Dizraeli and Vanessa Kisuule. Hot Poets is a climate science and poetry project that in just 3 years, has travelled from a muddy field in Glastonbury to a partnership with the UN Climate Convention. Now an award winning CIC, Hot Poets has engaged artists, audiences and change makers in five continents - all with the aim of bringing to life the climate solutions, technology and ideas that could save our planet.
The event will feature short films made by two of Hot Poet's international artists from Thailand and Cape Town and live performances from Liv, Chris and fellow Hot Poets Dizraeli and Vanessa Kisuule.
Presented in partnership with Hot Poets, Gaia Foundation and the UNFCCC's Resilience Frontiers
The event is also available to watch via live stream. Please book a ‘Live Stream Ticket’ at checkout.
Chris Redmond:
Chris Redmond is a writer, musician and multi-artform facilitator. Co-Artistic Director of Hot Poets, founder of Tongue Fu, his career spans thirty years, working in twenty countries on five continents, with collaborators including Kae Tempest, Lemn Sissay, Irvine Welsh and Hollie McNish.
In 2022 he was chosen by the UN, to be one of 50 international thought leaders, taking part in Adaptation week in Botswana. Chris contributes to the UNFCCC’s Resilience Frontiers and facilitates processes in creativity, performance and leadership in schools, colleges, universities and with clients such as The British Council, BBC and The Southbank. His poetry and music has featured on BBC Radio 1-6, ITV, Sky Arts, CBBC, in The Guardian and Independent. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the Outspoken Prize and was on the judging panel for the Forward Prize.
Liv Torc:
Liv Torc is a poet, performer, UN Consultant, artist and project weaver, who plunders the vast caverns and dormant volcanoes of the human and planetary condition. A Radio 4 Slam winner, a former Bard of Exeter, host of The Rainbow Fish Speakeasy and The Hip Yak Poetry Shack. Liv runs the poetry stage at WOMAD, Hot Poets and the lockdown haiku and photography project, Haiflu - as featured on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today Programme.
In the last two years she has performed on BBC R4 Poetry Please, at TEDxLondonWomen, NBC Universal, the Barbican, UNESCO in Paris and at the Southbank Centre. She has supported both Roger McGough and Hollie McNish for their recent UK tours.
Most significantly, Liv is the Co-Director of Hot Poets, the international climate science and poetry project aimed at cutting through the doom and despair and communicating the real stories of climate science and ingenuity that we don’t get to hear. Hot Poets has taken Liv inside COP26, 27 and 28, performing for the United Nations and the Met Office.
Her published books include Show Me Life and The Human Emergency.
“You don’t get any better than Liv Torc” – Roger McGough
"You're good at this" - Michael Rosen
Filters:
Live Event
Online/Streamed
Free Event
Part of #LyraFest
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Tickets: Free
Live Streamed ✔
This year's Lyra Annual Festival Public Talk.
Join Chris Redmond and Liv Torc, as they share, in words, poetry and film, the phenomenal story of Hot Poets, as well as short guest readings from local legends Dizraeli and Vanessa Kisuule. Hot Poets is a climate science and poetry project that in just 3 years, has travelled from a muddy field in Glastonbury to a partnership with the UN Climate Convention. Now an award winning CIC, Hot Poets has engaged artists, audiences and change makers in five continents - all with the aim of bringing to life the climate solutions, technology and ideas that could save our planet.
The event will feature short films made by two of Hot Poet's international artists from Thailand and Cape Town and live performances from Liv, Chris and fellow Hot Poets Dizraeli and Vanessa Kisuule.
Presented in partnership with Hot Poets, Gaia Foundation and the UNFCCC's Resilience Frontiers
The event is also available to watch via live stream. Please book a ‘Live Stream Ticket’ at checkout.
Chris Redmond:
Chris Redmond is a writer, musician and multi-artform facilitator. Co-Artistic Director of Hot Poets, founder of Tongue Fu, his career spans thirty years, working in twenty countries on five continents, with collaborators including Kae Tempest, Lemn Sissay, Irvine Welsh and Hollie McNish.
In 2022 he was chosen by the UN, to be one of 50 international thought leaders, taking part in Adaptation week in Botswana. Chris contributes to the UNFCCC’s Resilience Frontiers and facilitates processes in creativity, performance and leadership in schools, colleges, universities and with clients such as The British Council, BBC and The Southbank. His poetry and music has featured on BBC Radio 1-6, ITV, Sky Arts, CBBC, in The Guardian and Independent. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the Outspoken Prize and was on the judging panel for the Forward Prize.
Liv Torc:
Liv Torc is a poet, performer, UN Consultant, artist and project weaver, who plunders the vast caverns and dormant volcanoes of the human and planetary condition. A Radio 4 Slam winner, a former Bard of Exeter, host of The Rainbow Fish Speakeasy and The Hip Yak Poetry Shack. Liv runs the poetry stage at WOMAD, Hot Poets and the lockdown haiku and photography project, Haiflu - as featured on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today Programme.
In the last two years she has performed on BBC R4 Poetry Please, at TEDxLondonWomen, NBC Universal, the Barbican, UNESCO in Paris and at the Southbank Centre. She has supported both Roger McGough and Hollie McNish for their recent UK tours.
Most significantly, Liv is the Co-Director of Hot Poets, the international climate science and poetry project aimed at cutting through the doom and despair and communicating the real stories of climate science and ingenuity that we don’t get to hear. Hot Poets has taken Liv inside COP26, 27 and 28, performing for the United Nations and the Met Office.
Her published books include Show Me Life and The Human Emergency.
“You don’t get any better than Liv Torc” – Roger McGough
"You're good at this" - Michael Rosen
Filters:
Live Event
Online/Streamed
Free Event
Part of #LyraFest
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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